Dave Fayram is a modern Silicon Valley veteran working in San
Francisco. He first started working with Erlang in 2007 to create the
Fuzed project and appreciated the experience so much he brought Erlang
to Powerset for the Katamari Project. He has contributed to open source
software that helps integrate other languages with Erlang. When not
working on Katamari and Fuzed, he experiments with Erlang-inspired
designs in other functional and OO languages.

Erlang is a powerful language for distributed computation, but most
modern production software is written in a variety of languages that
are not as suited to reliable, distributed programing. At Powerset, we
developed a platform for reliable distributed computing that leveraged
the Erlang Ports infrastrcutre to make the robustness and flexibility
of Erlang-based networked infrastructure to a variety of language
runtimes, without onerous cross-porting work. From that base, we
extended our system to support heterogenous networks of services which
can be added or removed in real time without interrupting existing
services, using a simple model akin to an erlang event loop to talk
with external code.